Hello Tien , There is tool in Hadoop DFS i.e fsck . I hope this will help you and serve your purpose very well.
For e.g: $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fsck <filename/directorie path> -files -blocks -locations The above tool will display the blocks/chunks of files , locations where this blocks/chunks of files are located. Also it will display other useful information for files and directories. For more information on fsck , just refer this URL : http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.19.0/hdfs_user_guide.html#fsck Thanks , --- Peeyush On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:24 -0800, tienduc_dinh wrote: > hi everyone, > > I got a question, maybe you can help me. > > - how can we get the meta data of a file on HDFS ? > > For example: If I have a file with e.g. 2 GB on HDFS, this file is split > into many chunks and these chunks are distributed on many nodes. Is there > any trick to know, which chunks belong to that file ? > > Any help will be appreciated, thanks lots. > > Tien Duc Dinh
